The gang duped over 500 gullible job-seekers and took Rs 3.5 lakh from each candidate.

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Shashank Shekhar

New Delhi

May 14, 2016

UPDATED: May 14, 2016 08:24 IST

The gang also issued fake offer letters.

A pan-india gang of scamsters not only created fake a railway recruitment board website and offered fake appointment letters but also conducted medical tests and week-long training of selected candidates.

After tracking the gang for a month, Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh arrested nine people from Lucknow on Friday. They claim that the mastermind of the gang hails from Delhi and created a pan-India network.

The gang duped over 500 gullible job-seekers and took Rs 3.5 lakh from each candidate. Scamsters earlier used to run a placement agency in Delhi and later in an attempt to make quick money, created a fake website to dupe large number of potential job seekers.

They operated a similar placement fraud in Delhi and Patna and were now running the fraud website from the railway colony in Lucknow.

"These gang members have their agents working in all the states. Job seekers from Kashmir to Kerala were duped by them on pretext of giving permanent railway jobs," said Additional Superintendent of Police, UP-STF, Triveni Singh.

Explaining the modus operandi, Singh said the gang created a fake website (www.rrb.co.in) and advertised about jobs of ticket collectors and potters. This website was hosted on a server based out of Canada. Their agents approached fresh graduates and job-seekers and asked them to apply on the website.

"The gang was extremely professional and these candidates were made to follow all the processes and documentation which railways asks for. They also conducted medical test of the candidates by taking their blood samples and fingerprint," said Singh adding they charged Rs 1.5 lakh from each candidate and each candidate was informed via email about a week-long training in Lucknow.

Investigators found that scamsters were hitech and had created fake appointment letters on the railways letterhead by morphing their logo.

Those arrested were identified as Rajesh Sharma, Kunal Srivastava, Ashok Kumar, Rajeev Kumar, Ravish Rawat, Jeetu, Amit Kumar, Mukesh Kumar and Dilip Kumar. Police claims Rajesh was heading the gang and was living in Mehrauli area in Delhi. He was running a placement agency when he came in contact with fake job scamsters of Bihar and made his own gang and made agents across India.

Police is yet to ascertain exact number of victim but so far name of over 500 victims has come to light. Total victim can go over a thousand as they are spread across India.

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